Converting wide characters to their nearest ASCII equivalents

Dave Scott dscott91 at columbus.rr.com
Wed May 17 22:11:57 UTC 2006


That should be doable in just a few lines of code using Perl.

Stephen R Laniel wrote:

>I'm running rsync right now to copy a lot of MP3s, and it's
>choking on filenames containing a 'u' with an umlaut. I'd
>like to be able to convert such characters to their nearest
>ASCII equivalents -- 'u', in this case. Is there any method
>that will do this in general?
>
>  
>

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